Deadline Date: July 08, 2026
The Robotics Adoption Central Convening Body Summer Competition offers funding to establish a national coordination function that accelerates robotics adoption across the UK.
The focus areas of this opportunity center on building a coordinated national system for Robotics Adoption Hubs by enabling knowledge sharing, developing a central programme website, promoting robotics adoption to end users, and providing secretariat support for hub leader meetings.
It also includes creating standardised branding and materials across hubs, ensuring balanced support across regions and sectors, integrating international insights on market trends and adoption challenges, and offering guidance on the UK robotics ecosystem covering suppliers, integrators and training providers, while establishing a model that can operate independently after funding ends.
The funder intends to provide up to £2 million in total funding for this competition, with individual project grant requests required to fall between £500,000 and £2 million. The project duration is set at 42 months, with an expected start date of 1 October 2026 and an end date of 31 March 2030.
All funded organisations must carry out their activities in the UK and intend to exploit project outcomes within the UK, while ensuring most of the funding is spent domestically. Charities, not-for-profit organisations and other UK registered entities may also participate as collaborators, while subcontractors may be used where justified. Non-funded partners may take part, including international organisations working from their home countries.
UK registered organisations including businesses of any size, research and technology organisations, public sector organisations and academic institutions are eligible to apply. Academic lead applicants must collaborate with at least one business. Projects may run individually or collaboratively, with at least one additional partner required in collaborative applications, and no single partner is allowed to account for more than 70% of total eligible costs.
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